NEW YORK The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.

Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.

“..a pretty high standard (for government) of effectiveness and making things work...”

Maybe... but I can’t move past them denying Citizens their most Basic, Civil, Human, and Constitutional right to defend themselves.

No matter what else they do right, that will always be the litmus test for me - of ANY government, politician, candidate, etc. How they view your right to carry and protect yourself and your family - self-defense - shows how they view ALL of your rights.

Well, at the very least, I’m glad they’re sensible and using the correct profile - it wasn’t, after all, 75yr old Irish Catholic grandmothers and grandfathers who drove those aircraft into the Twin Towers.

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posted on 08/28/2013 7:37:57 AM PDT
by NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)

Well, we’ve certainly got to shut that down then? I mean, just because you lost 3000 of your citizens in one fell swoop, including over four hundred emergency workers that you knew and loved, is no reason to go drawing logical conclusions.

Remember, it doesn’t matter how many die, as long as WE DONT PROFILE!

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posted on 08/28/2013 8:24:53 AM PDT
by SoCalTransplant
(Wake me when we get to the part where we alter or abolish it.)

Ill bet 0bamas NSA passes on intercepts of the NYPD to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Call me a little paranoid, but I think you just hit on the reason for the Feds to snoop with such a large net. Not to tell Americans about our enemies, but to pick targets for them among us and let our enemies know what is being done to thwart them.

Everything else this regime has done is bassackwards, why not the snooping as well?

It doesn't even have to be the whole shebang, just a few strategically placed people.

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posted on 08/28/2013 8:01:07 PM PDT
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

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